This is a book full of ideas for introducing real world problems into mathematics classrooms and assisting teachers and students to benefit from the experience. Taken as a whole these contributions provide a rich resource for mathematics teachers and their students that is readily available in a sin
Real-World Problems for Secondary School Mathematics Students: Case Studies
β Scribed by Manfred Borovcnik, Ramesh Kapadia (auth.), Juergen Maasz, John OβDonoghue (eds.)
- Publisher
- SensePublishers
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 283
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Modelling in Probability and Statistics....Pages 1-43
Problems for the Secondary Mathematics Classrooms on the Topic of Future Energy Issues....Pages 45-66
Coding Theory....Pages 67-85
Travelling to Mars: A Very Long Journey....Pages 87-98
Modelling the Storage Capacity of 2d Pixel Mosaics....Pages 99-112
Mathematics for Problems in the Everyday World....Pages 113-122
Political Polls and Surveys....Pages 123-135
Correlations Between Reality and Modelling....Pages 137-153
Exploring the Final Frontier....Pages 155-171
What are the Odds?....Pages 173-185
Models for Logistic Growth Processes (e.g. Fish population in a Pond, Number of Mobile Phones within a Given population)....Pages 187-208
Teaching Aspects of School Geometry Using the Popular Games Rugby and Snooker....Pages 209-220
Increasing Turnover? Streamlining working conditions? A possible way to optimize production processes as a Topic in Mathematics Lessons....Pages 221-237
Mathematics and Eggs....Pages 239-256
Digital Images....Pages 257-271
Modelling and Technology....Pages 273-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-281
β¦ Subjects
Mathematics Education
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